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From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life (Paperback)
by Lucinda Bassett
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Stress management, Anxiety & Phobia, Fear and worry control, Health |
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Inspirational, practical and straight to the point, this book is a must have for anyone who is suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. |
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Author: Lucinda Bassett
Publisher: Collins Wellness
Pub. in: January, 2001
ISBN: 0060927585
Pages: 288
Measurements: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01014
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0060927585
Language: American English
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The National Bestseller in North America. |
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Lucinda writes from true personal experience and is not afraid to share it with us, in the hopes that her own tried and true methods will help and heal. She is a compassionate soul, as most of us are who suffer with panic, she is also very intelligent, sensitive and analytical, all common traits that could be used against us or for us.
This is an excellent book, applicable to men,women,teens and children. It is clearly written, reassuring, offers genuine workable strategies for coping with and handling and yes, even eventually conquering anxiety at any level. Ms.Bassett is reassuring, calming and knows where she is coming from. It is non-judgmental, confidence boosting and the best book I have read on the subject. It is particularly useful for teens because it lets them see that so many things they feel are normal, and reassures them that they are not alone, but special for having sensitive, creative personalities. It is useful for adults both trying to help their children cope with their feelings, and coping with their own anxieties.
This is a great book!
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Anyone who is suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. Also good for a gift to whoever you know is suffering from anxiety and panic.
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Lucinda Bassett is the founder and CEO of one of the most successful self-help companies in the country, the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety, Inc. Her audio program Attacking anxiety and Depression is used worldwide by health care organizations, hospitals, and universities. Author of the national bestseller From Panic to Power, Lucinda Bassett produces and hosts the award-winning infomercial "Attacking Anxiety." She has shared her techniques with such clients as McDonalds, Chrysler, and AT&T. She has appeared on numerous talk shows, including Oprah and The View, and been featured in Family Circle, Reader's Digest, and many more.
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From Panic to Power is Lucinda Bassett's inspiring account of the proven techniques she used to overcome anxiety disorder and regain control of her life.
A bestseller with more than 72,000 hardcover copies sold, From Panic to Power offers techniques and skills to the ever–growing number of people who are adversely affected by today's overwhelmingly stressful environment. Lucinda Bassett's effective program, which teaches people how to think differently and respond in a less anxious way, is enabling hundreds of thousands all over the world to transform their draining doubts, fears, and anxieties into positive energy and newfound freedom. Her methods allow sufferers to gain a new understanding of themselves and their challenges when dealing with anxiety and teach effective skills to help transform negative self–talk and destructive worry habits into recently discovered compassion and confidence.
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Chapter 1 All Things Are Possible
Come to the edge, He said.
They said, We are afraid.
Come to the edge, He said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Here's the good news: you're special. If you are someone who experiences more than the average amount of anxiety, you are full of potential for greatness. Why? Because you probably have above average intelligence. You are highly creative with a fabulous imagination. You are detail-oriented and analytical. These are wonderful traits that can make you extremely successful and enable you to accomphsh great things. Unfortunately, people with anxiety disorders tend to use their attributes to scare themselves. They overintellectualize, overanalyze, and use their creativity to envision the worst possible scenarios. Used in a negative way, our wonderful traits can make us sick.
Let's pretend for a moment that you could turn all this anxious energy around and make it work for you instead of against you. Can you imagine how different your life might be? Ask yourself where you might be right now if anxiety and fear weren't holding you back. If anything were possible. What would you do differently if you weren't afraid to fail or to succeed, if you weren't afraid of anxious feelings or being alone? What if you weren't afraid to take chances, to get involved, or even to embarrass yourself a little? Your whole life might be different. You might be living somewhere else or working somewhere else. Possibly you would have different relationships. Or maybe you would be right where you are, but you'd be enjoying it a whole lot more. It's not too late.
You are on the verge of change.A Call To Freedom
With this book, you can go to the edge and free yourself from anxiety. You can find freedom and take charge of your life, now and forever. As wonderful as that sounds, I know it also sounds scary. You need to trust yourself and know that you have all the tools necessary to get on the road to recovery and to build a good life for yourself. You just need a good foundation.
When you embark on a learning process that will most assuredly change your life forever, don't you want to learn from someone who has overcome those debilitating fears? When you learn from someone who has done it, you can be reassured and motivated. That's where I come in. I've been there and I've made it out the other side.
For many, many years I made excuses for why my life wasn't going the way I wanted it to. My anxiety was a frightening experience, but at the same time it was also my protection. My constant fears and body symptoms -- feelings of bewilderment, heart palpitations, dizziness -- gave me reasons not to do the things that really scared me, like taking chances, ending unhealthy relationships, standing up for and depending upon myself. I spent many years of my life feeling different from other people. I had scary thoughts about losing control. I often worried that I would embarrass myself or the people close to me.
I had always considered myself independent. Energetic as a child, creative and fun loving as a teenager, I loved to have fun and do exciting things. Yet, I remember having scary thoughts as young as seven years old. By the age of nine, I had developed an eating disorder. The sight of food made me sick. Secretly, I thought I was dying of some horrible disease. Despite a substantial weight loss, I appeared happy, but I wasn't.
As time passed, the eating problems dissipated and I developed another anxiety-related problem: irritable bowel syndrome. This frustrating problem is common to many people with anxiety disorder. By fourteen, everything in my life revolved around my fear of diarrhea. I made excuses about my comings and goings. My activities were extremely limited. I couldn't enjoy my teenage years.
What happened to me is what happens to so many people. One fear created another. By my sixteenth birthday, a time when I should have been focused on boys and school, I was in a constant state of worry. I remember watching the news and hearing the usual stories about someone jumping out a window or hurting someone else and I would think, "What if I did that?" Of course I didn't tell anyone about my thoughts. There might have been something wrong with me and I didn't want anyone else to think I was strange. By the time I was eighteen, I was experiencing panic attacks regularly, feeling uncomfortable in any situation where I couldn't run if need be. I began making excuses for myself. The simplest things were difficult for me.
One of my most difficult challenges was being in an unhealthy relationship. I knew I should leave, but I was so insecure about being alone, I couldn't end it. It turned out that I didn't have to; he ended it. Once on my own, I moved a few times and changed jobs and, although I was full of fear, anxiety, and self-doubt, I functioned. I somehow managed to stay in my comfort zone, physically and emotionally.
By my early twenties, I wondered if I was losing my mind. Insanity was my biggest fear back then. I remember driving miles out of my way to avoid passing a state Psychiatric hospital, so afraid I might end up there. The interesting thing is that most people didn't notice my strange behavior. Even those closest to me didn't know about my hidden fears. This is typical.
When we are in an anxious episode, we think the whole world notices the things we do, yet very few people really do.
Everyone is focused on his own life just as we are. |
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Library Journal (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-20 00:00>
Bassett, executive director and founder of the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety, is perhaps best known for her successful infomercial, "Attacking Anxiety." Prior to this, she suffered from a serious anxiety disorder. Not only did she ultimately overcome that disability but she also found an extraordinary talent for helping others, which shines through in her first book. Her experiences will strike a chord in anyone who has problems with anxiety. Beyond that, her common-sense approach, which appears to use the same principles as cognitive therapy, conveys reassurance and hope. This extraordinary work reaches out to its readers and is bound to be helpful. In a class by itself, this is highly recommended for all public libraries. |
Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-20 00:00>
A star in motivational broadcasting because of her long-running infomercial, "Attacking Anxiety," Bassett here offers self-help to sufferers from panic attacks, in a workbook format (with audio cassettes available), interspersed with anecdotes and personal experiences. Revealing her own struggles with anxiety and agoraphobia, which she calls "avoidance behaviors," Bassett describes and analyzes the many degrees and forms of anxiety, discomfort and stress that often characterize contemporary living for both adults and children. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-20 00:00>
I liked Lucinda's book because it was the first that gave me hope as a sufferer of anxiety disorder/agoraphobia. I saw there was someone who suffered through agoraphobia and had actually recovered completely.
I'd spent years in psychotherapy with doctors who treated me more as an object than a patient. My therapists really didn't do much to help me to recover, because most didn't understand what it was like to have anxiety disorder. Talking about problems regarding anxiety can only do so much if you don't have the skills to recover. And drug therapy, as beneficial as it is, is not always the solution to long-term recovery. I've known people who have been on a variety of anxiety-reducing medications for decades at a time.
Lucinda's book initially helped me to return to graduate school. This was big for someone who had panic attacks every three to four minutes, and who couldn't even read a novel, watch TV, or go out places without a panic attack. But I admit I relapsed. But, it's only because I stopped using the techniques she outlines in the book. (When I had moved, I left her book at home.) Funnily enough, I relapsed after I started going to therapy at school believing that this would help me recover. My anxiety problems only grew worse and I became agoraphobic. For a few years afterward, I hated going inside grocery stores at all - but, since I was alone - I drove to them at an early hour to avoid as many people as possible. I also avoided shopping. I was homebound in my house for several years as well. I rediscovered Lucinda's book this year and purchased her tape series.
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B. Andresen (MSL quote), USA
<2007-10-20 00:00>
Everyone is different. I only know myself, so I will share my story and you can take it for what it's worth. I battled with some level of anxiety for many years, through most of my early 20's, I suppose, maybe earlier too. Around the age of 25 I started to have some agoraphobic behaviors, wanting to get away when in social situations, having trouble getting in a car when someone else was driving, etc.; I started to avoid going out with my friends. My symptoms and behaviors slowly worsened, but not to the point that they became debillitating. Shortly after my 28th birthday I decided to return to graduate school after having been away from acedemia for 6 years. My first three months back at school were extremely stressful, extremely stressful. I was trying to balance my school work with starting research, on top of that I was teaching (which was insanity for me considering my fear of public speaking), trying to make friends and keep my marriage together. Towards Christmas I started to suffer from daily headaches. Around November I had my first full blown panic attack. I didn't know what was happening, I thought I was dying. Most of you know what I'm talking about. I made it to Christmas, and returned home to visit my parents. I thought the time away from school would allow me to recover, but the opposite happened. That two weeks was the most difficult two weeks of my life. I was in a constant cycle of panic. Each morning I would wake up and bolt upright in bed, immediately the fear and adrenaline would start, I'd wonder if I'd ever be able to take care of myself, wonder what my relatives and friends must think, I'd shake and have heart palpitations, the clock ticking would crash through my head like a bass drum, I'd sweat and have diarrhea, I couldn't eat or sleep or be around people, I feared time alone with my thoughts. I thought I had gone crazy, lost it, that's how I'd spend the rest of my days. This went on for two weeks. Two weeks does not sound like a long time, but I would compare that mental anguish to the most severe physical pain you can imagine. I won't paint any graphic imagery because if you're reading this then you probably know what I'm talking about. It was the most intense pain that I have ever endured. I was SURE I could not return to graduate school. I thought I might need to be put in an asylum. Somehow a friend got word of my condition and offered me this book. Just reading the first chapter made me feel so much better. I tell you in all honesty, this book changed my life. It took a lot of work and a lot of time and then more work, but I turned my feelings completely around. I am more self-confident now, two years later, than I have ever been in my life. I have not had a panic attack in perhaps 18 months. I KNOW that I am in control. Again, the change was not instantaneous; I had relief from some of the acute symptoms fairly quickly, within days or weeks, but it took several months for me to stop having panic attacks on a daily basis. Given the title of the book, it sounds cliched for me to say this, but I truly have taken all of my negative attributes that started my panic cycle in the first place and turned them around so that they help me succeed. I am realizing dreams that I never thought possible. Somewhere in the book Lucinda says that she's happy she went through her panic/anxiety disorder because it has made her a stronger person than she would have ever been. I remember reading that the first time and thinking what a load of crap that was. But now I feel the same way. Few things in my life have so defined and limited me as my panic and anxiety, and now that I'm in control of my feelings, nothing could be more powerful. Good luck. |
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